Club loyalty is that rarest of things in football today given the reality of big money transfers and big money contracts. This point has been underlined by the ongoing Cristiano Ronaldo transfer saga, with Real Madrid offering to smash the existing world transfer record and to pay him more than the club record 120,000 pounds per week he is already getting at United.
This post honours that rare breed of footballer that stays with one club for their entire professional career (to avoid argument some players might have played at a youth or trainee level for another club). I have also included current players whose careers are still ongoing, though I have generally attempted not to, given the risk, however remote, that they will lose their one-club status in the future. So here is the first team XI of that rarest breed of man - the loyal footballer:
Striker: Uwe Seeler (Hamburg)
Striker: Francesco Totti (AS Roma)
Left Wing: Ryan Giggs (Man Utd)
Central Midfield: Matt Le Tissier (Southampton)
Central Midfield: Sandro Mazzola (Inter Milan)
Right Wing: Giampiero Boniperti (Juventus)
Left Back: Paolo Maldini (AC Milan)
Center Back: Franco Baresi (AC Milan)
Center Back: Billy Wright (Wolves)
Right Back: Guiseppe Bergomi (Inter Milan)
Goalkeeper: Lev Yashin (Dynamo Moscow)
Bench: Sepp Maier (Bayern Munich), Tony Adams (Arsenal), Milton Santos (Botafogo Rio), Berti Vogts (Monchengladbach), Bill Foulkes (Man Utd), Chendo (Real Madrid), Tom Finney (Preston), Raul (Real Madrid)
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment